A Bibliography of Readings on Rights
Thanks to George Rainbolt for the core of these listings; thanks also to Rikard Levin. Suggested additions would be appreciated. Last revised May, 2008.
Ackerman, Bruce, Social Justice in the LiberalState (New Haven: Yale Univerity Press, 1980)
Alexy, Robert, “Individual Rights and Collective Goods,” in Carlos Nino, ed., Rights (New York: New York University Press, 1992)
Applbaum, Arthur Isak. “Are Violations of Rights Ever Right?” Ethics vol.108 no.2 (1998): 340-366.
Arnedt, Hannah, On Revolution (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973)
Arnold, C. “Analyses of Rights,” in E. Kamenka and A. E.-S. Tay (eds.), Human Rights (London: Edward Arnold, 1978): 74-86
Austin, John. Lectures on Jurisprudence; or, The Philosophy of Positive Law. (ed.) Robert Campbell 4 London: J. Murray, 1879.
Baker, Judith. Group Rights. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994.
Becker, Lawrence. Property Rights: Philosophic Foundations. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
Becker, Lawrence. “Individual Rights,” In And Justice For All: New Essays on Individual Rights and Public Policy (ed.) Tom Regan and Donald Van De Veer New Jersey: Rowman and Littlefield, 1982.
Becker, Lawrence, “The Moral Basis of Property Rights,” in J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (eds.) Nomos XXII: Property (New York: New York University Press, 1980): 187-220.
Becker, Lawrence, “Three Types of Rights,” Georgia Law Review 13 (1980): 1197-1220.
Bedau, Hugo. “The Right to Life.” Monist 52 (1968): 550-572.
Bedau, Hugo Adam, “Anarchical Fallacies”: Bentham’s Attack on Human Rights, Human Rights Quarterly 22.1 (2000) 261-279
Benditt, Theodore M., Rights (Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1982)
Benn, Stanley & Peters, R.S. Social Principles and the Democratic State. London: Allen and Unwin, 1959.
Bentham, Jeremy, “Anarchical Fallacies,” in II The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Bowring, ed., (Edinburgh: William Tait, 1843), extracted in Waldron, Nonsense upon Stilts: Bentham, Burke and Marx on the Rights of Man
Brandt, Richard B. “Utilitarianism and Moral Rights.” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 14 (1984): 1-20.
Brandt, Richard B. “The Concept of a Moral Right and Its Function.” Journal of Philosophy 80 (1983): 29-45.
Brandt, Richard B. Ethical Theory: The Problems of Normative and Critical Ethics. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1959.
Brown Jr., Stuart M. “Inalienable Rights.” Philosophical Review 64 (1955): 192-211.
Brownlie, Ian, ed., Basic Documents on Human Rights, 3d ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992)
Buchanan, Allen. “What’s So Special About Rights?” Social Philosophy and Politics 2 (1984): 61-83.
Burke, Edmund, Reflections on the Revolution in France (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969)
Calabresi, G. & Melamed, A.D., “Property Rules, Liability Rules and Inalienability: One View of the Cathedral,” 85 Harvard Law Review ___ (1972)
Campbell, Tom. Human Rights: From Rhetoric to Reality. New York: Blackwell , 1986.
Campbell, Tom. The Left and Rights: A Conceptual Analysis of the Idea of Socialist Rights. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1983.
Campbell, Tom. Rights: A Critical Introduction. Routledge (2006)
Charvet, John, “A Critique of Human Rights,” in Pennock & Chapman, eds., Human Rights
Cohen, Carl, “Why Racial Preference Is Illegal and Immoral,” 67 Commentary 40-52 (June, 1979)
Cooper, John M., “Justice and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics,” 49 Review of Metaphysics 859-72 (1996)
Corbin, Arthur L. “Legal Analysis and Terminology.” Yale Law Journal (1920): 163-173.
Cranston, Maurice William. What Are Human Rights? New York: Basic Books, 1962.
Cranston, Maurice William. “Human Rights: A Reply to Prof. Raphael,” In Political Theory and the Rights of Man (ed.) D.D. Raphael London: MacMillian Press, 1967.
Crawford, James, ed., The Rights of Peoples (Oxford: Clarendon, 1992)
Decew, Judith Wagner. “Moral Rights: Conflicts and Valid Claims.” Philosophical Studies 54 (1988): 63-86
DeGrazia, David, Taking Animals Seriously: Mental Life and Moral Status (Cambridge UP 1996)
Demsetz, Harold, “Toward a Theory of Property Rights,” 57 American Economic Review: Proceedings and Papers ___ (1967)
Donnelly, Jack. The Concept of Human Rights. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1985.
Dover, K.J., Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1974)
Downie, R.S. “The Right to Criticize.” Journal of Philosophy 44 (1969): 116-126.
Dworkin, Ronald. “Rights as Trumps,” collected in Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights,
Dworkin, Ronald . Taking Rights Seriously (Harvard, 1977)
Dworkin, Ronald, “Baake’s Case: Are Quotas Unfair?” in Dworkin, A Matter of Principle 293-303 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1985)
Dworkin, Ronald, “Do We Have a Right to Die?” in Ronald Dworkin, Freedom’s Law 130-46 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard, 1996)
Dworkin, Ronald, Life’s Dominion: An Argument about Abortion, Euthanasia, and Individual Freedom (New York: Knopf, 1993)
Edmundson, William A. An Introduction to Rights (Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2004)
Eliot, Robert, “Moral Autonomy, Self-Determination and Animal Rights,” 70 Monist 83-97 (1987)
Elshtain, Jean Bethke. “The dignity of the human person and the idea of human rights: four inquiries.” 14 J.L. & Relig. 53-65 (1999-2000).
Fabre, Fabré. Book Review: An Introduction to Rights. The Journal of Moral Philosophy, Vol. 3, No. 1, 108-109 (2006)
Fay, Thomas. “Maritain on Rights and Natural Law.” Thomist vol.55 no.3 (1991): 439-___
Feinberg, Joel. “Comments on Richard Wasserstrom’s Rights, Human Rights, and Racial Discrimination’.” Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964): 641-644.
Feinberg, Joel. “The Moral and Legal Responsibility of the Bad Samaritan.” Criminal Justice Ethics 3 (1984): 56-68.
Feinberg, Joel. “Duties, Rights, and Claims,” American Philosophical Quarterly 3 (1966): 137-144.
Feinberg, Joel. “The Nature and Value of Rights.” Journal of Value Inquiry 4 (1970): 263-267.
Feinberg, Joel. Social Philosophy. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1973.
Feinberg, Joel. “In Defense of Moral Rights: Their Constitutional Relevance” In Freedom and Fulfillment, Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1992.
Feinberg, Joel. “Human Duties and Animal Rights.” Etyka 18 (1980): 11-83.
Feinberg, Joel. “The Rights of Animals and Unborn Generations,” In Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1980.
Feinberg, Joel. “Is There a Right to be Born?” in Feinberg, Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty
Feinberg, Joel, Rights, Justice, and the Bounds of Liberty: Essays in Social Philosophy Princeton: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1980
Feinberg, Joel. “Voluntary Euthenasia and the Inalienable Right to Life.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 7 (1978): 93-123.
Feinberg, Joel, The Problem of Abortion (Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth, 1973)
Finnis, John. Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1980
Finnis, John, “The Rights and Wrongs of Abortion: A Reply to Judith Thomson,” 2 Philosophy & Public Affairs 92 (1978)
Fitch, Frederick B. “A Revision of Hohfeld’s Theory of Legal Concepts.” Logique et Analyse 10 (1967): 269-276.
Flathman, Richard. The Practice of Rights. New York: CambridgeUniversity Press, 1976
Francione, Gary L., Rain without Thunder: The Ideology of the Animal Rights Movement (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996)
Frankena, William K. “Natural and Inalienable Rights.” Philosophical Review 64 (1955): 212-232.
Freeden, Michael, Rights (Open University Press, 1991).
Frey, Raymond G. Utility and Rights. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1984.
Frey, Raymond G. Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1980.
Fried, Charles. Right and Wrong. Cambridge: HarvardUniversity Press, 1978.
Fried, Charles, “Rights and Health Care–Beyond Equity and Efficiency,” New England J. Med. 293 (31 July 1975)
Fried, Charles, “Distributive Justice,” 1 Social Policy and Philosophy 52 (1983)
Galston, William A. “On the Alleged Right to do Wrong: A Response to Waldron.” Ethics 93 (1983): 320-324
George, Robert P., Making Men Moral [esp. ch. 4, contra Waldron’s “Right to Do Wrong”] (Oxford, 1993)
Gewirth, Alan, “Are There Any Absolute Rights?,” collected in Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights
Gewirth, Alan. Human Rights: Essays on Justification and Applications. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.
Gewirth, Alan. “Why Rights are Indispensable,” Mind 95 (1986): 329-344.
Gibbard, Allan. “Utility and Human Rights.” Social Philosophy and Policy 1 (1984):92- ___
Gilligan, Carol, In a Different Voice (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982)
Glendon, Mary Ann. Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse. New York: Free Press, 1991.
Godwin, William, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice, K. Codell Carter, ed. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1971)
Golding, Martin P., “Towards a Theory of Human Rights.” The Monist 52 (1968): 521-549.
Golding, Martin P., “The Concept of Rights: A Historical Sketch,” in E. Bandman & B. Bandman, eds., Bioethics and Human Rights 44-50 (Boston, 1978)
Golding, Martin P., “Obligations to Future Generations,” 56 The Monist 85-99 (1972)
Golding, Martin P., “Justice and Rights: A Study in Relationship,” in E. Shelp, ed., Justice and Health Care 23-36 (Dordrecht, 1981)
Golding, Martin P., “From Prudence to Rights: A Critique,” J.R. Pennock & J.W. Chapman, eds., Human Rights 165-74 (New York, 1981)
Golding, Martin P., “The Primacy of Welfare Rights.” Social Philosophy and Policy 1 (1984): 119-136.
Golding, Martin P., “Community and Rights,” 9 Bulletin of the Australian Society of Legal Philosophy 185-96 (1985)
Golding, Martin P., “The Presuppositions of Rights Discourse,” A.R.S.P., 1988, 135-39
Golding, Martin P., “The Significance of Rights Discourse,” 18 Philosophical Topics 53-64 (1990)
Golding, Martin P., “Aristotelean Ethics and Natural Rights: a Critique,” 18 Reason Papers 71-77 (1993)
Green, T.H., Lectures on the Principles of Political Obligation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1882)
Griffin, James, “Towards a Substantive Theory of Rights,” in Frey, ed., Utility and Rights
Grimke, A.E. Appeal to the Christian Women of the South (New York, Arno Press, 1969)
Grotius, Hugo. On the Law of War and Peace, Francis W. Kelsey, trans. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1925)
Gutmann, Amy, “Communitarian Critics of Liberalisam,” 14 Philosophy & Public Affairs ___ (1985)
Haksar, Vinit. “The Nature of Rights.” Archiv fuer Rechts- und Soziaphilosophie 64 (1978): 183-204.
Halpin, Andrew. Rights and Law–Analysis and Theory, Hart Publishing, 1997.
Halpin, Andrew. “Rights and Reasons: A Response to Harel,” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 18, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 485-___
Hardin, Garrett, “The Tragedy of the Commons,” in Ackerman, ed., Economic Foundations of Property Law
Hardin, Russell, “The Utilitarian Logic of Liberalism,” 97 Ethics 47-74(1986)
Hardwig, John, “Should Women Think in Terms of Rights?” 94 Ethics 441-___ (1984)
Hare, R.M., Moral Thinking: Its Methods, Levels, and Point (Oxford: Clarendon, 1981)
Harel, Alon, “What Demands Are Rights? An Investigation into the Relation between Rights and Reasons,” 17 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 101-___ (1997)
Harel, Alon, “Revisionist Theories of Rights: An Unwelcome Defense,” 11 Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence 227-44 (1998)
Harre, R. and D.N. Robinson, “On the Primacy of Duties,” Philosophy 70 (1995): 513-532.
Hart, H.L.A. “Are There Any Natural Rights?” Philosophical Review 64 (1955): 175-191, collected in Theories of Rights, Waldron, ed.
Hart, H.L.A. “Definition and Theory in Jurisprudence.” Law Quarterly Review 70 (1954): 49-60, collected in Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy (q.v.)
Hart, H.L.A. “Bentham on Legal Rights,” in Essays on Bentham
Hart, H.L.A., “Between Utility and Rights,” in Hart, Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy
Hart, H.L.A. Essays in Jurisprudence and Philosophy. New York: Clarendon Press, 1983.
Hart, H.L.A. Essays on Bentham: Studies in Jurisprudence and Political Theory. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1982.
Hart, H.L.A. “Legal and Moral Obligation,” in Essays in Moral Philosophy (ed.) A.I. Melden Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1966.
Hart, H.L.A. “The Asciption of Responsibility and Rights.” Proceedings, Aristotelian Society 49 (1949): 171-194
Hartney, Michael, “Some Confusions Concerning Collective Rights,” 4 Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 293-314 (1991)
Henkin, Louis, “International Human Rights as ‘Rights’,” in Pennock & Chapman, Human Rights
Hill, Thomas, Autonomy and Self-Respect esp. 4-18, 19-24 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Hinman, Lawrence N., Ethics: A Pluralistic Approach to Moral Theory, 2d ed. (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1997) (bibliographic essay)
Hohfeld, Wesley Newcomb, Fundamental Legal Conceptions as Applied in Judicial Reasoning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1919) collecting 23 Yale Law Journal 16 (1913) and 26 Yale Law Journal 710 (1917)
Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, Richard Tuck, ed. (Cambridge, 1996)
Honore, Tony, “Rights and the Rightless,” in Making Law Bind (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987)
Hudson, Stephen D. & Husak, Douglas N. “Legal Rights: How Useful in Hohfeldian Analysis?” Philosophical Studies 37 (1980): 45-53
Hurka, T., “Why Value Autonomy?” 13 Social Theory and Practice 361-82 (1987)
Husak, Donald. “Why There are No Human Rights,” in Smith and Blocker, ed. Applied Social and Political Philosophy, Prentice Hall, 1994.
Ignatieff, Michael, The Needs of Strangers (London: Chatto & Windus, 1984)
Ingram, Attracta. A Political Theory of Rights. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994)
Irwin, T.H., “The Good of Each, the Good of All,” Times Literary Supplement 26 (Aug. 16, 1996) (reviewing Fred D. Miller, Jr., Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s “Politics”)
Jacobs, Lesley A., “The Enabling Model of Rights,” 41 Political Studies ___ (1993)
Jacobs, Lesley A., Rights and Deprivation (Oxford: Clarendon, 1993)
Jeffries, Allison, ed. Women’s Voices, Women’s Rights: Oxford Amnesty Lectures 1996 (Westview Press, 1998).
Jones, Peter, Rights (Macmillan, 1994)
Kagan, Shelly, The Limits of Morality (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989)
Kagan, Shelly, Normative Ethics (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1998)
Kamenka, Eugene & Tay, Alice Erh-Soon. Human Rights. London: Edward Arnold, 1978.
Kamm, F.M., “Harming, Not Aiding, and Positive Rights,” 15 Philosophy & Public Affairs ___ (1986)
Kamm, F.M. Morality, Morality, Vol. II: Rights, Duties and Status,
Kanger, Stig & Kanger, Helle. “Rights and Parliamentarism” Theoria 32 (1966): 85-115.
Kateb, George, “Democratic Individuality and the Claims of Politics,” 12 Political Theory ___ (1984)
Kateb, George, “Democratic Individuality and the Meaning of Rights,” in Nancy L. Rosenblum, Liberalism and the Moral Life 183-206 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1989)
Kavka, Gregory S., “Disability and the Right to Work,” 9 Social Philosophy & Policy ___ (1992)
Kramer, Matthew H., Simmonds, N.E., & Steiner, Hillel, A Debate Over Rights (Oxford, 1998)
Kuflik, Arthur, “The Utilitarian Logic of Inalienable Rights,” 97 Ethics 75-87 (1986)
Kymlicka, Will, ed., The Rights of Minority Cultures (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995)
Kymlicka, Will, Liberalism, Community, and Culture 135-61 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989)
Kymlicka, Will, Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)
Ladenson, Robert F. “Two Kinds of Rights.” Journal of Value Inquiry 13 (1979): 161-___
Larmore, Charles, “The Moral Basis of Political Liberalism,” 96 Journal of Philosophy 599-625 (1999)
Lemos, Ramon M. Rights, Goods, and Democracy. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1986.
Lindahl, Lars: Position and Change: A Study in Law and Logic, D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1977.
[Rikard Levin: “Contains a good, informal survey of the British analytical view on rights.”]
Locke, John. The Second Treatise on Civil Government, Peter Laslett, ed., (Mentor, 1960)
Lomasky, Loren E. Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1987.
Louden, R.B., “Rights Infatuation and the Impoverishment of Moral Theory,” 17 Journal of Value Inquiry ___ (1983)
Lund, William R. “Politics, Virtue, and the Right To Do Wrong: Assessing the Communitarian Critique of Rights.” Journal of Social Philosophy vol. 28 no. 3 (1997): 134-___
Lyons, David, “Utility and Rights,” collected in Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights
Lyons, David. “The Correlativity of Rights and Duties.” Nous 4 (1970): 45-57.
Lyons, David, “Human Rights and the General Welfare,” 6 Philosophy & Public Affairs 113-29 (1977)
Lyons, David. “Rights, Claims, and Beneficiaries.” American Philosophical Quarterly 6 (1969): 173-185
Lyons, David. Rights, Welfare, and Mill’s Moral Theory. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 1994.
MacCormick, Neil, “Children’s Rights: A Test Case for Theories of Rights,” in MacCormick, Legal Right and Social Democracy
MacCormick, Neil. Legal Right and Social Democracy: Essays in Legal and Poltitical Philosophy. New York: Clarendon Press, 1982.
MacCormick, Neil. “Rights in Legislation,” in Law, Morality, and Society: Essays in Honor of H.L.A. Hart (eds.) Hacker and Raz Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979.
MacCormick, Neil. H.L.A. Hart. Stanford: StanfordUniversity Press, 1981
Machan, Tibor, “Some Recent Work oin Human Rights Theory,” 17 American Philosophical Quarterly 103-16 (1980)
Machan, Tibor, Individuals and Their Rights (LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court, 1989)
Macintyre, Alasdair, After Virtue (Notre dame: Notre dame University Press, 1981)
Mackie, J. L., “Can There Be a Right-Based Moral Theory?,” collected in Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights
Macpherson, C. B., The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism: Hobbes to Locke (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1964)
Malm, H.M., “Killing, Letting Die, and Simple Conflicts,” 18 Philosophy & Public Affairs ___ (1989)
Marcuse, Herbert, “Repressive Tolerance,” in Wolff, R.P., Moore, B., & Marcuse, H., A Critique of Pure Tolerance (Boston: Beacon Press, 1971)
Maritain, Jacques, The Rights of Man (London, 1944)
Marks., Stephen P., “Emerging Human Rights: A New Generation for the 1980s?,” 33 Rutgers Law Review 435-52 (1981)
Marshall, Geoffrey. “Rights, Options, and Entitlements,” in Oxford Essays in Jurisprudence 2nd series (ed.) A.W.B. Simpson Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1978.
Martin, C.B.. “Rules and Powers,” Nous, 1998 n 12 supp. 283
Martin, Rex. “Human Rights and Civil Rights.” Philosophical Studies 37 (1980): 391-???.
Martin, Rex. A System of Rights. Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1993.
Martin, Rex & Nickel, James W. “Recent Work on the Concept of Rights.” American Philosophical Quarterly 17 (1980): 165-180
Marx, Karl, “On the Jewish Question,” collected in David McLellan, ed., Karl Marx: Early Texts (Oxford: Blackwell, 1972)
Mautner, Thomas, “Pufendorf and the Correlativity Theory of Rights,” in Sten Lindstrom & Wlodzimierz Rabinowicz, eds., In So Many Words 37-57 (Uppsala, 1989)
Mayo, Bernard (?). “Human Rights.”, Proceedings, Aristotelian Society. 34 (1965)
McCloskey, H.J., “Rights,” 15 Philosophical Quarterly 115-27 (1965)
McCloskey, H.J. “The Right to Life.” Mind 84 (1975): 403-425.
McCloskey, H.J. “Rights – Some Conceptual Issues.” Australian Journal of Philosophy 54 (1976): 99-115.
McCloskey, H.J. “Moral Rights and Animals.” Inquiry 22 (1979): 23-54.
McConnell, Terrance. “The Nature and Basis of Inalienable Rights.” Law and Philosophy 3 (1984): 25-60.
Melden, A. I., Rights in Moral Lives: A Historical-Philosophical Essay. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Melden, A. I., Rights and Persons. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980)
Meyer, Michael J., & Parent, W.W., eds., The Constitution of Rights: Human Dignity and American Values (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992)
Meyers, Diana T. Inalienable Rights: A Defense. New York: ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1985.
Miller, Fred D., Jr., Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle’s Politics. New York: Clarendon Press, 1995. (with bibliography)
Miller, Fred D., Jr., “Aristotle and the Origins of Natural Rights,” 49 Review of Metaphysics 873-907 (1996)
Milne, A.J.M. Human Rights and Human Diversity: An Essay in the Philosophy of Human Rights. Albany: Suny Press, 1986.
Mitsis, Philip, “The Stoic Origin of Natural Rights” from Ierodiakonou, ed., Topics in Stoic Philosophy 153-77 (Oxford: Oxfrod U.P.,1999)
Moore, Wayne D. Constitutional Rights and Powers of the People. Princeton, N.J.: PrincetonUniversity Press, 1996.
Montague, Phillip. “Two Concepts of Rights.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 9 (1980): 372-384.
Montague, Phillip. “Rights and Duties of Compensation.” Philosophy and Public Affairs 13 (1984): 79-88.
Montague, Phillip. “Regarding Absolute Rights.” Philosophical Studies 46 (1984): 1 -18.
Montague, Phillip. “The Nature of Rights: Some Logical Considerations.” Nous 19 (1985): 365-377.
Montague, Phillip. “When Rights are Permissibly Infringed.” Philosophical Studies 53 (1988): 347-366.
Nagel, Thomas. “Personal Rights and Public Space.” Philosophy and Public Affairs vol.24 no.2 (1995): 83-107.
Neilsen, Kai, “Skepticism and Human Rights,” 52 Monist ___ (1968)
Nelson, William. “On the Alleged Importance of Moral Rights.” Ratio 18 (1976): 145-155
Nelson, William, “Special Rights, General Rights, and Social Justice,” 3 Philosophy & Public Affairs ___ (1974)
Nickel, James W. Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987.
Nickel, James W. “Dworkin on the Nature and Consequences of Rights.” Georgia Law Review 11 (1977): 1115-1142.
Nickel, James W. “Are Human Rights Utopian?” Philosophy and Public Affairs 11 (1982): 246-264.
Nielsen, Kai. “Scepticism and Human Rights.” Monist 52 (1968): 573-594.
Nono, Carlos, The Ethics of Human Rights (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
Nozick, Robert, Anarchy, State and Utopia (Basic, 1974)
O’Neill, Onora, “Children’s Rights and Children’s Lives,” 98 Ethics 445-63 (1988)
Paine, Thomas, Rights of Man, H. Collins, ed. (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969)
Parfit, Derek, Reasons and Persons (Oxford, 1984)
Peffer, Rodney, “A Defense of Rights to Well-Being,” 8 Philosophy & Public Affairs 65-87 (1978)
Pennock, J. Roland. Human Rights: Nomos XXIII NewYork: New YorkUniversity Press, 1981.
Perry, Thomas D. “A Paradigm of Philosophy: Hohfeld on Legal Rights.” American Philosophical Quarterly 14 (1977): 41-50.
Perry, Thomas D. “Reply in Defense of Hohfeld.” Philosophical Studies 37 (1980): 203-209.
Perry, Michael J. The Idea of Human-Rights: Four Inquires New York: OxfordUniversity Press, 1998.
Pettit, Philip, “Rights, Constraints, and Trumps,” 47 Analysis 8-13 (1987)
Plamenatz, J. “Rights, Part I.” Aristotelian Society 24 (1950): 72-82.
Porter, Jean. “From natural law to human rights: or, why rights talk matters.” 14 J.L. & Relig. 77-96 (1999-2000).
Rachels, James, “Why Do Animals Have a Right to Liberty?,” in Regan & Singer, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations
Rachels, James, “Do Animals Have a Right to Life?,” in H.B. Miller & W.H. Williams, Ethics and Animals (Clifton, N.J.: Humana Press, 1983)
Radin, Max. “A Restatement of Hohfeld.” Harvard Law Review 51 (1938): 1141-1164.
Rainbolt, George, “Rights as Normative Constraints on Others,” 53 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research ___ (1993)
Rainbolt, George W. The Concept of Rights (Dordrecht: Springer, 2006)
Raphael, D.D. “Human Rights, Part I.” Aristotelian Society 39 (1965): 205-218.
Raphael, D.D. “The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Citizen,” In Political Theory and the Rights of Man (ed.) Raphael London: MacMillan, 1967.
Rawls, John, A Theory of Justice (Cambridge, Mass., 1971)
Rawls, John, “The Law of Peoples,” in Stephen Shute & Susan Hurley, eds., On Human Rights: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 41-82, 220-30 (New York: Basic Books, 1993)
Raz, Joseph. “On the Nature of Rights.” Mind 93 (1984): 194-214.
Raz, Joseph. “Hart on Moral Rights and Legal Duties,” 4 Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 126 (1984)
Raz, Joseph, “Right-Based Moralities,” in Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights.
Raz, Joseph. The Morality of Freedom Oxford: OxfordUniversity Press, 1986.
Raz, Joseph. “Prof. Dworkin’s Theory of Rights,” Political Studies 26 (1978): 123-___
Regan, Tom, The Case for Animal Rights (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983)
Regan, Tom & Singer, Peter, eds., Animal Rights and Human Obligations (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 1976)
Reich, Charles, “The New Property,” 73 Yale Law Journal ___ (1964)
Richard, B.A. “Inalienable Rights: Recent Criticism and Old Doctrine.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 29 (1969): 391-404.
Rigterink, Roger J. Warning: The Surgeon Moralist Has Determined that Claims of Rights Can be Detrimental to Everyone’s Interests. Bloomington: IndianaUniversity Press, 1992.
Ritchie, D. G., Natural Rights: A Criticism of Some Political and Ethical Conceptions (London: Muirhead, 1952)
Robinson, R.E. “The Logic of Rights.” University of Toronto Law Journal 33 (1983): 267-278
Rorty, Richard, “Post-modernist Bourgeois Liberalism,” 80 Journal of Philosophy ___ (1983)
Roshwald, Mordecai. “The Concept of Human Rights.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 19 (1959): 354-379.
Ross, Alf: Tûtû. Harvard Law Review 70(March):812-825, 1957. [Rikard Levin: “Introduces the idea to view concepts like “property” (“property right”)
as an “intermediary concept”; if certain conditions are fulfilled then x possesses y, and this fact in its turn has a set of consequences.”]
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques. The Basic Political Writings, Donald A. Cress, trans. (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1987)
Rowlands, Mark. Animal Rights: A Philosophical Defence (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
Salmond, John William, Jurisprudence, or, The Theory of the Law. London: Stevens and Haynes, 1902.
Sandel, Michael J., Liberalism and the Limits of Justice (Cambridge, 1982)
Sandel, Michael J., “The ProceduralRepublic and the Unencumbered Self, ” 12 Political Theory ___ (1984)
Sarat, Austin & Kearns, Thomas R. Identities, Politics, and Rights. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995
Sarat, Austin & Kearnes, Thomas R., Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives (Michigan 1996)
Sass, Herbert Ravenel, “Mixed Schools and Mixed Blood,” 198 Atlantic Monthly 45-49 (Nov., 1956)
Scanlon, T.M. “Rights, Goals, and Fairness.” Erkenntnis 11 (1977): 81-95, collected in Waldron, ed., Theories of Rights
Schauer, Frederick, Free Speech: A Philospohical Inquiry 89-92 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982)
Scheffler, Samuel, “Natural Rights, Equality, and the Minimal State,” 6 Canadian Journal of Philosophy 59-76 (1976)
Schiller, Marvin. “Are There Any Inalienable Rights?” Ethics 79 (1969): 309-315.
Schneewind, J.B., Sidgwick’s Ethics and Victorian Moral Philosophy (Oxford: Clarendon, 1977)
Schneewind, J.B., The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
Schofield, Malcolm, “Sharing in the Constitution,” 49 Review of Metaphysics 831-58 (1996)
Sen, Amartya. “Rights and Agency,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 11 (1982): 3.-39
Sen, Amartya. Development as Freedom, esp. ch. 10 (Knopf, 1999)
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